Clouded skipper
Lerema accius
The clouded skipper is a dark brown butterfly with a chunky body and a few small pale spots on its wings. Skippers dart around quickly from flower to flower. It loves pink, purple and white flowers.
Lives in
Southern United States, Mexico, Central America, Venezuela and Colombia, in grassy places and gardens
Wingspan
3.2 to 4.5 cm (1.3 to 1.8 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
It drinks nectar from pink, purple and white flowers like lantana and selfheal. Its caterpillar eats grasses.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🍚wings as wide as 8 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 10 seconds
How big is Clouded skipper compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
Clouded skipper about 37 km/h (23 mph)
A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
In Florida and southern Texas it flies all year round.
2
Its caterpillar eats grasses, including lawn grass.
3
Skippers get their name from their quick, skipping flight.
you asked
Most asked questions about Clouded skipper
?What does the clouded skipper eat?
The butterfly drinks nectar from flowers. The caterpillar eats grass.
?How big is the clouded skipper?
Its wings are about 3 to 4.5 centimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Lerema accius
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
Where the facts come from
- Lerema accius (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Anne Toal. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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